Backcountry crucibles
Subtitle: the Lehigh Valley from settlement to steel
By: edited by Jean R. Soderlund and Catherine S. Parzynski.
Contributors: Soderlund, Jean R., 1947-; Parzynski, Catherine S.
Series: Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethlehem [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780934223805
Subjects: Ethnology -- Pennsylvania -- Lehigh River Valley -- History; Ethnology -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem Region -- History; Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 18th century; Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 19th century; Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Social conditions; Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History; Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 18th century; Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 19th century; Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Social conditions; Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immigrant kin and indentured servants : fuel for economic growth in colonial Pennsylvania / Marianne S. Wokeck; title: Pennsylvania : "hell for preachers"? : religion and the German colonists / Michael G. Baylor; title: Gender prescriptions in eighteenth-century Bethlehem / Beverly Prior Smaby; title: Religion, expansion, and migration : the cultural background to Scottish and Irish settlement in the Lehigh Valley / Ned C. Landsman; title: Domestic, dependent, nations : the colonial origins of a paradox / Gregory Evans Dowd; title: Perfection in the mechanical arts : the development of Moravian industrial technology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1814 / Stephen H. Cutcliffe And Karen Z. Huetter; title: Religious conflict and violence in German communities during the great awakening / Aaron Spencer Fogleman; title: The wheels of commerce : market networks in the Lehigh and Musconetcong valleys, 1735-1800 / Michael V. Kennedy; title: From print shop to Congress and back : Easton's Thomas J. Rogers and the rise of newspaper politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley; title: "Perpetual motion, perpetual change a boundless ocean without a shore" : democracy in Pennsylvania and the consequences of the triumph of the people, 1800-1820 / Andrew Shankman; title: Fine-tuning the forks : transformation of the Lehigh River / Augustine Nigro; title: The improbable success of Bethlehem Steel / John K. Smith; title: Bethlehem social elites, "the steel," and the Saucon Valley Country Club / Roger D. Simon; title: Gender and economic decline : the Pennsylvania anthracite region, 1920-1970 / Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht.